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Id

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def: primitive drives, instinctual needs
properties: need gratifying, primary process thinking, unconscious discharge tension

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Ego

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def: mediator between id and superego & between internal/external reality
properties: defense mechanisms

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Superego

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def: conscience, ego ideal
properties: right and wrong, uses internal/external rewards and punishments to control and regulate id impulse

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fixation

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a failure to resolve a conflict (psychoanalytic theory)

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three levels of mental activity

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unconscious: thoughts, feelings, desires, memories (unaware)
preconscious: thoughts & feels brought to consciousness easily
conscious: mental activities - fully aware

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Stages of Psychosexual Development

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1) Oral (0-18mos) world explored through mouth, dependency needs externally met, libido centered onn oral
2) Anal (18-36mos) elimination/retention, holding on, letting go, impulse regulation beginning, some self-control
3) Phallic/oedipal (36mos-6yrs) affection directed at opp. sex parent, rival w/same sex parent, genital investment
4) Latency (6-11yrs) formal learning occurs, peer friendships, same-sex peer relationships primary, energy invested outside family
5) Genital (11-15yrs puberty & 11-19yrs adolescence) intense love capable of sexualization, egotistic and altruistic, ambivalence toward parents and other adults

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Psycho-social Theory

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Erikson

Personality develops with interaction and mastery of social environment.

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Trust vs Mistrust

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Erikson 
0-12mos
-sufficient supplies enable assurance of care
-soothing to prevent overstimulation
-certainty of mother
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Autonomy vs Shame/Doubt

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Erikson
18-36mos
-verbal and conceptual stim
-language dev
-permission to explore w/protection against danger
-beginning differentiation
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Initiative vs Guilt

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Erikson
3-6yrs
-begin. to be away from home
-play w/peers
-pride in self/achievements
-separate from parents
-superego dev
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Industry vs Inferiority

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Erikson
6-11 yrs
-conformity in educational institution -->some sacrifice of creativity/imagination
-intellectual/social mastery
-cooperation with others
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Identity vs Role Confusion

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Erikson
11-18yrs
-partial sep. from parents
-peer relationships are primary
-sexual identity confirmed
-conformity within group
-dev of vocational goal
-second individuation phase
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Intimacy vs Isolation

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Erikson
Erikson
19-30yrs
-leaving home
-dev of career
-intimate relationships
-commitments to sex, role identity, occupation, social role
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Generativity vs Stagnation

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Erikson
30-65yrs
-achievement of stable new family
-achievement and productivity in vocational area

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Ego Identity vs Despair

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Erikson
65+yrs
-acceptance of mortality
-satisfaction of previous life roles
-opp for further self-dev
-adequacy in dealing  with loss (death/illness)
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Separation-Individuation Theory

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Margaret Mahler

  • dev of consolidated sense of self as result of separation and individuation from love object
  • 0-3yrs
  • leads to object constancy

1) Attachment
- Normal Autism: 0-2/3mos - someone meets all physiological needs, stimulus barrier, alert inactivity
- Normal Symbiosis 2-5/6mos - “I vs Not I”, omnipotent fusion w/mother, mutual cueing w/mother

2) Separation
- Hatching 6-8/9mos - alert when awake, exploration of others, observation/peek-a-boo, discrimination of mother vs others, stranger anxiety
- Practicing 9-18mos - optimal distance, upright mobility, height of narcissism, trying out autonomous skills,

3) Individuation/Rapproachement
- Beg 15-22mos - disengagement vs intense need for attention, resurgence of stranger anxiety, shares discoveries, identifies body as own, attaches to others when mother absent
- Rapp. to Crisis Proper 24-30mos - ambivalent behaviors (clinging/demanding), splitting of self, transitional objects help, can leave mother vs being left
- Res. of Crisis 30-36mos - language dev, play masters anxiety, internalization of parental demands, dev own means to solve dilemmas

4)Object Constancy 36+mos - ok w/mother leaving bc understands she will return, memory retention, play is purposeful and constructive, unified self and other image (good/bad)

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Cognitive Developmental Theory

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Jean Piaget
4 stages completed by 11yrs

1) Sensorimotor: 0-2yrs
- intentional actions, signal-meaning, language beginning
2) Pre-Operational: 2-7yrs
- night terrors/magical thinking, concrete thinking, egocentric, centered on one detail or event
3) Concrete Operations: 7-11yrs
- beg of abstract thought, fairness is issue, cause/effect understood, comprehension of past/present/future, logical implications understood, reversible thinking
4) Formal Operations: 11+yrs
- higher level abstract thinking, planning for future, perspective-taking,

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Moral Development Theory

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Lawrence Kohlberg
Need higher levels of cognitive reasoning to achieve moral reasoning. Levels of moral reasoning:

Stage I: Pre-conventional - based on avoiding punishment/serve own needs, “right” is relative

Stage II: Conventional - need to look good in own/other’s eyes, maintain social system

Stage III: greater moral principles, sense of personal commitment to do what is right, greater good

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Stages of Death & Dying

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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance
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Problem-Solving Approach

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Helen Harris Perlman

4 P’s (person, problem, place, process) looked at during process of change

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Psychsocial Approach

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Florence Hollis

  • People seen in context of interactions/transactions with external world.
  • Need formal medical, psychological, social history
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Crisis Intervention

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Naomi Golan

  • Brief intervention of 6-8 wks
  • Goals:
    1. relieve stress w/social-emotional resources
    2. return to previous level of functioning
    3. help strengthen coping mechanisms and dev adaptive coping strategies
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Classical Conditioning/Respondent

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Ivan Pavlov

  • stimulus-response
  • dog/bell/food
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Operant Conditioning

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BF Skinner
ABCs of behavior & FBA
Used mostly for sexual dysfunction, phobic disorders, compulsive behaviors, DD/autism

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Rational Emotive Therapy

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  • Cog-oriented approach
  • Change client irrational arguments thru argument, persuasion, rational re-evaluation, teaching client to counter self-defeating thinking w/new non-distressing self-statements
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Gestalt

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experiences not isolated but part of perceptual system of interdependent factors - tx is experiential, here/now, used with groups/indiv

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Structural Family Therapy

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Salvador Minuchin
importance of family organization –>functioning/well-being of group
-boundaries (interpersonal, w/outside world, generational), enmeshment
-interventions: family mapping, parent training, strengthening co-parent relationships, building family hierarchy, enactment, joining

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Multi-generational approach

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Murray Bowen
family issues result of unfinished business in family of origin relationships; problems are fusion/inadequate individuation
Goal: increase differentiation of individuals and avoid triangulation/emotional cut-offs
Interventions: genogram, extensive history-taking, education about impact of family system on current family system

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Strategic Family Therarpy

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Jay Haley/Palo Alto Group

  • All problems have multiple origins; presenting problem is symptom/response to current dysfunction in family interaction
  • Therapy focuses on altering feedback style
  • Techniques: relabeling, reframing, directives,
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Concurrent therapy

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tx of two or more people - usually seen by different therapists

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Conjoint therapy

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tx of 2 or more people in sessions together

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Object Relations

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internalized images of self and others based on early parent-child interactions which determine a person’s mode of relationship to other people

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Object Relations Theory

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Melanie Klein & British School

-Stresses object-seeking propensity of infant instead of focusing exclusively on libidinal and aggressive drives

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Undifferentiated family ego mass

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the emotional fusion or enmeshment of a family

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Stages of Group Development

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  1. Forming/Pre-Affiliation: dev of trust
  2. Storming/Power&Control: struggle for indiv autonomy and group identification
  3. Norming/Intimacy: utilizing self-service in group
  4. Performing/Differentiation: acceptance of each other as distinct individuals
  5. Adjourning/separation&termination: independence
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Primary prevention

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to prevent; aimed at reducing the prevalence of a problem by reducing incidence of new cases; creating environments that promote mental health
(Ex: teen pregnancy - boys/girls clubs)

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Secondary prevention

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to treat symptoms; reduce prevalence by reducing duration thru early detection/intervention
(Ex: teen pregnancy - groups for expectant mothers)

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Tertiary prevention

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to reduce disability in chronic problems; reduce duration of problem by reducing negative after-effects
(Ex: teen pregnancy - daycare in HS)

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6 Basic Functions of SW

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  1. help people to effectively utilize own problem-solving & coping capacities
  2. est linkages between people/resources
  3. facilitate relationships between people/resource systems
  4. contribute to development/modification of social policy
  5. distribute resources
  6. serve as agents of social control
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Social Casework

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Restoring, sustaining, enhancing individually satisfactory and socially acceptable functioning

  1. determine nature of problem
  2. restore/sustain/enhance satisfactory and socially-acceptable social functioning
  3. spell out details
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Interviewing Process Phase 1

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Initial Contact (intake interview)

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Interviewing Process Phase 2

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Phase 1: Initial Interviews directed at exploration, assessment, and planning
A. Engaging client
B. Fact-gathering: assessment of problem
C. Assessment or Diagnosis
D. Determination of Goals/Dev of Tx Contract

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Suicide Stats

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  • males complete suicide 4x more than females
  • highest risk - males 75+
  • attempts 3-6x more likely for females
  • men higher risk for guns/hanging
  • woman higher risk for pills/gas
  • caucasians 2x more likely than AA
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Clinical Factors that increase suicide risk

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  • presence of clinical depression
  • hx of previous attempts
  • alcohol abuse
  • impairment in rational thinking
  • lack of social supports
  • recent losses
  • decline in physical health
  • hostile interpersonal environ.
  • recent discharge from medical or psychiatric hospital
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Phase II: Treatment Interventions

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Interventions:

  1. Direct (sustainment, direct influence, exploration/description/ventilation, person-in-situation reflection, pattern-dynamic reflection, developmental reflection)
  2. Indirect/Environmental interventions (resource development, interpreter/mediator between clt and environ, intervention in environment)
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Phase II: Treatment Techniques

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Techniques:

  1. Self-awareness and self-understanding
  2. Ethical decision-making
  3. Talking and listening basic interpersonal skills
  4. Exploring
  5. Assessing
  6. Contracting
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Phase III: Termination & Evaluation

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A. Planned
B. Unplanned/forced

Elements: discussion of progress, feelings, dev of plan for maintaining progress, recommendations/referrals

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Neurodevelopmental Disorders

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  • Intellectual Disability
  • Communication Disorders
  • ASD
  • ADHD
  • SLD
  • Motor disorders
  • Tic disorders
  • Other Neurodevelopmental disorders
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Schizophrenia Spectrum & Other Psychotic Disorders

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-Abnormalities in one or more of 5 domains
-spectrum from Schizotypal personality d/o (odd and eccentric symptoms w/o break in reality) to schizophrenia (hallucinations/delusions)
Ex: Schizotypal Personality, Delusional, Brief Psychotic, Schizophreniform, Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective, Substance/Medication-Induced Psychotic, etc.

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Positive Symptoms

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Domain for Schizophrenia Spectrum, etc.

delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thinking (speech), grossly disorganized or abnormal motor behavior

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Negative Symptoms

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Domain for Schizophrenia Spectrum, etc.

diminished emotional expression, avolition

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Bipolar & Related Disorders

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Disorders including manic, hypermanic, and depressive symptoms
Includes: Bipolar I, Bipolar II, Cyclothymia,

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Depressive Disorders

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Disorders with presence of sad, empty, or irritable mood accompanied by somatic and cognitive changes that affect capacity to function.
Includes: Disruptive Mood Dysregulation, Major Depressive, Persistent Depressive (Dysthymia), Pre-menstrual Dysphoric

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Anxiety Disorders

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Disorders involving persistent/excessive fear and anxiety.

Includes: Separation Anxiety, Selective Mutism, Specific Phobia, Panic, Agoraphobia, GAD

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Obsessive-Compulsive & Related Disorders

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Disorders with presence of obsessions and/or compulsions that are excessive and persistent
Includes: OCD, Body Dysmorphic, Hoarding, Trichotillomania,

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Trauma & Stressor-Related Disorders

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Disorders in which exposure to stressful event listed.

Includes: Reactive Attachment, Disinhibited Social Engagement, PTSD, Acute Stress, Adjustment

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Dissociative Disorder

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Disorders in which there is a loss of continuity of experience, fragmentation of identity
Includes: Dissociative Identity, Dissociative Amnesia, Depersonalization/Derealization

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Somatic Symptom & Related Disorders

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Disorders characterized by thoughts, feelings, and behaviors related to somatic symptoms
Includes: Somatic Symptom, Illness Anxiety (hypochondria), Conversion Disorder, Factitious (Munchaussen)

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Feeding & Eating Disorders

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Disorders related to persistent disturbance of eating/eating-related behavior
Includes: Pica, Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge-Eating Disorder

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Elimination Disorders

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Disorders that involve inappropriate elimination of urine/feces - diagnosed in childhood/adolescence
Includes: Enuresis, Encopresis

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Sleep-Wake Disorders

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Disorders involving sleep-wake complaints including quality, timing, amount, daytime distress
Includes: Insomnia, Narcolepsy, Nightmare Disorder, Restless Leg Syndrome

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Sexual Dysfunction

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Disorders involving clinically significant disturbance in person’s ability to respond sexually or experience sexual pleasure

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Gender Dysphoria

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Disorders where there is a marked difference between person’s expressed gender and gender assigned to him/her

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Disruptive, Impulse-Control, & Conduct Disorders

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Disorders with a significant lack of emotional and behavioral self-control
Includes: ODD, Intermittent Explosive, Conduct, Antisocial Personality

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Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders

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Disorders due to drugs taken in excess

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Neurocognitive Disorders

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Disorders with core feature being a deficit in cognitive function that is acquired vs developmental
Includes domains of complex attention, executive functioning, learning/memory, expressive/receptive language, perceptual/motor, social cognition
Includes: Dementia, Major or Mild Neurocognitive D/O

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Personality Disorders

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Disorders diagnosed 18+ with behavior deviating from expected, onset in adolescence/adulthood, leads to distress
Includes: Borderline, Narcissistic, Antisocial,

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Paraphillic Disorders

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Intense and persistent interest in sexual arousal and gratification

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Medication-Induced Movement Disorders & Other Adverse Effects of Medication

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Disorders including: Tardive Dyskinesia, Antidepressant Discontinuation Syndrome, Other Adverse Effects of Medication

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Values of Social Work

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  1. service
  2. social justice
  3. dignity and worth of the person
  4. importance of human relationships
  5. integrity
  6. competence
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Steps in research

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  1. problem formulation (hypothesis)
  2. study design
  3. methodology
  4. data collection
  5. analysis of results
  6. dissemination of results
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independent variable

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explanatory variable - causes the change

73
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dependent variable

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response variable - responds to change

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intervening variable

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factors that increase or decrease effect of independent variable

75
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quasi-experimental design

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study with two or more groups and two different interventions (can be control)
uses pre/post test

76
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single subject design

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study with one client or one client system

useful for private practice

77
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probability sample

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sample of random selection - every individual considered for study has equal opportunity to be included in the sample

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non-probability sample

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sample of whoever is available/willing to participate

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correlation coefficient

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numerical index indicating degree to which two variables are associated with each other
“r”
closer “r” gets to 1 - stronger association, closer to 0= weaker

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reliability

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consistency in the measurement of a variable

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validity

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  • internal: confidence with which we can say that a relationship exists between variables
  • external: how valid results are for other population; generalizability
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Ethical issues in research

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  1. informed consent
  2. voluntary participation
  3. confidentiality
  4. do not harm
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Needs assessment

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to verify a problem exists

84
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population at risk

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segment of population that is likely to develop a condition

85
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population at need

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group of potential targets who currently have condition

86
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incidence

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number of new cases of a problem that are identified or arise during a specified time

87
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prevalence

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number of existing cases at a specified time

88
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Procedures for identifying targets

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  1. Key Informant Approach
  2. Community Forum Approach
  3. Rates under treatment
  4. Social Indicators Approach
  5. Surveys & Census
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Theory X

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management style oriented to the tasks which need to be accomplished (McGregor’s Theory)

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Theory Y

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management style oriented to the growth and skills of the individual (McGregor’s Theory)

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